Titus
Joseph uses mirror image symmetry to explain existence. ‘Our Curious
World of Mirror Images’ combines science seamlessly with philosophy to
propose new concept.
In his new book, “Our Curious World of Mirror Images: Reflections on how
Symmetry Frames our Universe, Empowers the Creative Process and
Provides Context to Shape our Lives” (published by Balboa Press),
philosopher Titus Joseph draws on concepts from ancient philosophy,
science and even religion to unveil a new model of the universe that
explains how all things come into existence.

“Today, with all the advances in science, including cosmology, quantum
mechanics and relativity,” Joseph says, “I am prepared to demonstrate
using advanced science and philosophy, a new theory that explains how
things come into existence through the curious symmetries found
everywhere in nature.”

The central concept of “Our Curious World of Mirror Images” is called
positional symmetry (requisite mirror image). The book begins by
introducing readers to the beauty and universality of symmetry, and the
paradox of duality. Joseph outlines ancient holistic philosophies, past
ideas about space and time, new concepts from Einstein’s theory of
relativity, and recent discoveries from the science of cosmology.

After providing a broad overview of the universe and a brief background
in quantum theory, “Our Curious World of Mirror Images” explains the new
concept using illustrations and examples from everyday life. The new
paradigm serves as a lens to conceive how things come into being and
illustrates a new holistic model of the universe, all in an accessible
manner for most anyone to read. The end result reconciles many polarized
views and brings considerable amounts of added meaning to life.

• Introducing a whole new way of looking at our world

• Combines science and philosophy seamlessly to explain the cosmos of
space and time in an engaging way leading to a spiritual impulse

• Reconciles eastern paradigms with western views, and the intractable problem of duality that polarizes our lens on reality

• Demonstrates how all things come into being

• Provides a broad overview of the cosmos as a whole entity

• An eye-opener to the meaning of GodChapter excerpts including graphics are available at www.21cphilosophy.net/excerpt/
, includes the table of contents, bibliography and pages 1-10 of the book.

The Arche: Western History on MetaphysicsExcerpt 1 - [ pgs
13-14 ]
Science Rocks! It leads the way in the path of knowledge due to its many
successes. Yet, even for the sciences the fundamental theories have
proven to lead to very strange places. So, what of the rest of us
searching for a foundation of truth? Many have discovered their own
truth in astrology, numerology, the occult, or through faith is some
type of spirituality. These alternative and universal types of beliefs
have existed since the beginning of human history, and have enabled many
different types of peoples, around the world, to feel as though their
consciousness reaches beyond the physical limits of the immediate
senses. These so-called “mystical beliefs” exists to provide a
foundation in the form of an underlying truth in all reality.

The search for the underlying truth to reality is the holy grail of
philosophy, referred to as the philosopher’s stone. It is the long
sought after elixir of life. It is also the overriding goal of empirical
science to determine one grand unified theory that accounts for
everything in reality.

The spiritually inclined have actively turned their attention to a
higher domain or for many people, an underlying principle, in the
pursuit for meaningful answers to master life’s travails. This principle
can be viewed as supreme, and when personified, viewed as a supreme
being.

Consider that if we have something so ineffable as consciousness and
intelligence in our finite seemingly meaningless lives, why not then
propose of more consciousness at higher cosmic scales? The question is
what would consciousness be like at cosmic scales. Well, consider that
the galaxies of the cosmos are interconnected forming the cosmic web –
the highest known structure in the cosmos. Inflationary theory
demonstrates that the cosmic web originates from infinitesimal quantum
fluctuations at the beginning of the universe.

“…in a quantum world, nothing is ever perfectly uniform because of the
jitteriness inherent to the uncertainty principle…such nonuniformity can
be stretched from the microworld…providing the seeds for the formation
of large astrophysical bodies like galaxies (Greene, 2006, 307).

This observation by one of the world’s leading authorities on cosmology
gives assent to the ancient proverb, “as above, so below.” Dr. Greene
demonstrates that the highest visible structure of the universe is a
direct extrapolation of the infinitesimal jitteriness that is the
inherent nature of the quantum realm…Taking this observation to a
natural conclusion, I see no real differences between scientific
theories, as represented by Western science and justified as legitimate,
and the ideas of a supreme principle that is alive and conscious does
not seem alien to me, because we are alive, conscious, and intelligent,
and presumably derived from this same principle.

Introducing the WavicleExcerpt 2 - [ pgs
56-57 ]

In the early 19th century, Thomas Young demonstrated that light acts as a
wave using what is now commonly called the double slit experiment. The
double slit experiment was designed by shining a beam of light at a
screen with two pinholes in it. Young noticed that the light created
alternating light and dark vertical stripes when it arrived on the
second screen. These stripes demonstrate the waves of light spreading
out from the two pinholes and overlapping with each other, creating an
interference pattern. This showed that light acts as a wave.

Conversely in 1905, Albert Einstein showed that light is composed of
particles that we now know of as photons. Stephen Hawking explains,
There is thus a duality between waves and particles in quantum
mechanics: for some purposes it is helpful to think of particles as
waves and for other purposes it is better to think of waves as particles
(Hawking, A Brief History of Time, 75).

In the quantum world all particles, and not just photons behave as
waves, and waves can behave as particles, but there is something
significant about the wavelike nature of particles. The pulse of the
wave does not occur purely within an atom, but throughout the universe.
Dr. Brian Greene says that an electron can also be described as a wave
whose existence is spread throughout the universe (Green, The Fabric of
the Cosmos, 90).

Consider the paradox in the observation that fundamental particles are
simultaneously waves and thus, spread throughout the entire universe.
How can this be? We can separate a drop of water from the ocean but when
it is in the ocean, that drop becomes ocean. So it appears then that
the wavelike behavior of fundamental particles is a feature of the
quantum world, and therefore demonstrates non-spatial properties because
the wavelike functions are spread throughout the universe. Yet
paradoxically, particles can also be measured as a point with some
specific position or speed.

The
objects that we experience in daily life have spatial location. They
exist in a specific place during some time. We live in a “24 hours in a
day” scale of space and time. The quantum world however, has no space
and no time, so events are very jittery and short-lived. Events in the
quantum world have lifespans in the billionths of a second. Spacetime,
therefore, is not a relevant concept in the quantum world. This means
that it is very difficult to predict with precision what will happen at
the subatomic level and ‘probabilities’ become more relevant than
predictions.

Dr. John Gribbin, British astrophysicist and one of the most prolific
writers in science, explains:
Probability lies at the heart of the mystery of quantum reality, because
the quantum world obeys strict probabilistic rules…Quantum probability
can be seen to be at work at the level of individual atoms, photons and
electrons (Gribbin, Q is for Quantum, An Encyclopedia of Particle
Physics, 291).

Dr. Greene explains that the quantum norm is a “fuzzy hybrid reality”
because it is composed of probabilities. These are possibilities that
have not been realized. Take your time and pause here.

About the Author
Titus Joseph
has a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy with a minor in religious studies
and a Master’s degree in counseling. Mr. Joseph has worked throughout
his life as a counselor and at present, he develops group homes for
individuals with disabilities. Titus identifies most as a philosopher -
which is to say - a lover of wisdom. Though grateful for his formal
education, above all else, it’s the love of wisdom that motivates him
and I think you will find out why as you read Our Curious World of
Mirror Images
(www.21cphilosohy.net)